Veüe de l'Escurial tout entier - Van der Aa Original Engraving - 1715
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View of El Escorial Palace (Spain)
Title: Veue de l'Escorial tout entiere.
Published by: Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659 – Leiden, agosto de 1733)
Provenance: Delices de Espagne et Portugal, published in Leiden (Netherlands) 1715.
Image size: 16x12,5 cms.
Sheet size: 18,7x15,6 cms.
In good condition.
Pieter van der Aa was a Dutch bookseller, publisher and geographer. Editor of the work entitled Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, on Spanish and Portuguese life and customs, as well as descriptions of monuments and artistic works, published in Dutch "Beschryving van Spanjen en Portugal", and in the city of Leiden in 1707. That same year the French edition of that work appeared, which would be published again, also in French, in 1715 and in 1741; but in all the French versions, Juan Álvarez de Colmenar appears as the author, perhaps the pseudonym of the true author, perhaps of French origin. This work is illustrated with "figures in carved carving drawn in the same places by Juan Álvarez de Colmenar".
Original engraving with a large bird's-eye view of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, titled in the plate "Veüe de l'ESCURIAL tout entier". Before the main façade lies the forecourt with carriages and riders, at the right the gardens and groves, and beyond a wide landscape in which the surrounding villages are named: Galapagar, Torre del Pardo, Las Rozas, Colmenarejo, Madrid, Fresneda, Navalcarnero and Peralejo, among others.
From Les Délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal by Juan Álvarez de Colmenar, published by Pieter van der Aa in Leiden (Holland) in 1715, the most richly illustrated work on Spain published in the early 18th century. The plate keeps its plate number at the lower right corner.
Medium: Copperplate engraving (intaglio).
Artist / after: For Juan Álvarez de Colmenar's work.
Engraver: Workshop of Pieter van der Aa.
Date: 1715.
Source: Les Délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Leiden, Pieter van der Aa.
Dimensions: Image 6.3 x 4.9 in (16 x 12.5 cm); sheet 7.4 x 6.1 in (18.7 x 15.6 cm).
Condition: Vertical folds from the binding, as issued; laid paper toned, more strongly in the margins, with somewhat irregular edges; red-stained edges.
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View of El Escorial Palace (Spain)
Title: Veue de l'Escorial tout entiere.
Published by: Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659 – Leiden, agosto de 1733)
Provenance: Delices de Espagne et Portugal, published in Leiden (Netherlands) 1715.
Image size: 16x12,5 cms.
Sheet size: 18,7x15,6 cms.
In good condition.
Pieter van der Aa was a Dutch bookseller, publisher and geographer. Editor of the work entitled Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, on Spanish and Portuguese life and customs, as well as descriptions of monuments and artistic works, published in Dutch "Beschryving van Spanjen en Portugal", and in the city of Leiden in 1707. That same year the French edition of that work appeared, which would be published again, also in French, in 1715 and in 1741; but in all the French versions, Juan Álvarez de Colmenar appears as the author, perhaps the pseudonym of the true author, perhaps of French origin. This work is illustrated with "figures in carved carving drawn in the same places by Juan Álvarez de Colmenar".